Brush-ax.



J. T. REEVES.

BRUSH AX.

APPLICATION rmm 11111.1. 1911.

Patntgd June 25, 1912.

fn entr Attorneys onn 'rmorrrv REEVES, or GRANT, OKLAHOMA;

BRUSH-AX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed March 7, 1911. Serial No. 612,758.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. REEVES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grant, in the county of Choctaw and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Brush-Ax, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of wood working tools, and more especially to the handles thereof; and the object of the same is to produce an improved brush ax, and more especially an improved form of fastening between the ax head and the handle. These objects are accomplished by the construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed and as shown in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of this device.

' Fig. '2 is an upper edge view of the handle and head of the ax, and a section through the tip of the latter on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. F g. 3 is an enlarged vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the ax proper which is made of steel or of portant to thosewho have needfor the use of such an instrument. Its body 5 is wide and flat, having a dull heel 6 at the rear end thereof, from the heel an ordinary blade 7 extends along the lower edge of the body, and from this'blade extends a rounded cutting edge 8 reaching completely around the front end of'the body and upward along the forward edge of a hook 9 which is struck to the rear or upward from the back of the blade at a point beyond the handle fastening F. This book reaches a point at 10, and the dished side of the hook is itself sharpened as at 11 from the point to the handle socket. The latter begins at 12, and in side elevation is merely a cut-out in the upper or back edge of the body 5, the cutout being grooved as at 13 as best seen in Fig. 3.

The handle H, which by preference is of wood, is formed throughout of a single piece of material and given the configuration best adapted to implements of this character. As concerns the front end of the handle which joints the ax A, it is at this point roundedinto an ellipse as best seen in Fig. 3, the 'sharper curve 15 at one side of the ellipse resting in the groove 13 throughout the length of the latter. The front end of the'handle on its under side is rounded off as at 22 to conform with the shape of the socket 12 in the air head. On the back of the handle at about point 23 is a depression or what might be called a hump where the size of this end of the handle is reduced slightly for a purpose which will appear in the next paragraph.

The fastening device which connects the two independently pivoted members above described comprises two U-shaped metal loops 30 best seen in side, elevation inFig. 1,

and in edge view in Fig. 3 on a larger scale, and these loops are practically duplicates of each other. Their bodies 31 inclose the handle H, for which purpose the former-are made" elliptical on their interiorto such an extent that the groove 13 only is needed to 'fill out a complete ellipse, and their extremities or feet 32 are straight on the inside and parallel with each other so that they project beyond the smaller end of the ellipse and stand astride the body-5 of the ax A; and through them is passed a rivet or pivotal pin 33. The major axis of the ellipse formed by the interior of these loops, is, however, slightly greater than the major axis of the handle H at its front end; and the result is that when its front end has been pushed through the pivoted loops and slid along the groove 13 until its extremity 22 rests within the socket 12, both loops may be canted slightly as indicated in Fig. 1, the rearmost passing over the hump 23 of the handle and preventing the withdrawal of the latter. It is'not essential, although it is. desirable, that the foremost or outermost loop should also be canted, but ifit is canted 1 resting in said groove and its other edge having a hump, of two loops p votally connected to the said head and astride ot the groove thereof and adaptedto be moved in line with the groove thereof, said 100 s and groove forming a receptacle for the andle and adapted to be canted in either direction upon each side of the hum to clamp the handle within the groove 0 the head, and prevent the sliding movement thereof.

2. A brush ax comprising a head; a pair of spaced loops pivoted to the head and extended across the outer edge of the head; a

and provided in its outer edge with an outstanding bump; the loops being canted to engage the outer ed e of the handle upon opposite sides of the ump, to bind the inner edge of the handle against theouter edge of the head, the loops constituting 'the sole means for holding the handle assembled with the head. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atfixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

C. C. SANnnns, HENRY Momus. 

